Relatives and friends of the al-Kaware family attended the funeral of seven members of the family in Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip. The father, a member of the Fatah movement, and his 6 sons were all killed in an Israeli air strike. Duration: 00:51Jul 9, 2014

Israel significantly broadened its campaign against Gaza Wednesday after militants fired at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in their biggest confrontation since 2012, raising fears of a major Israeli ground offensive. Duration: 00:43Jul 9, 2014

Faizabad, July 09 (ANI): The ADG for Law and Order in Faizabad on Wednesday updated the information on Faizabad blast in Court premises. Mukul Goyal said that the blast took two lives and was supposedly a planned attack.Jul 9, 2014

Chennai, July 09 (ANI): Family members of abducted Indian aid worker, Alexis Prem Kumar in Herat province in Afghanistan, submitted a petition to the chief minister of Tamil Nadu J Jayalalithaa, on Wednesday, seeking her assistance in rescuing Kumar. Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Amar Sinha on June 16 had said that the aid worker abducted in Herat was safe and the government was working towards his release. Siblings of Kumar eagerly waited for information related to Kumar's whereabouts and hoped for his safe return.Jul 9, 2014

Amritsar, July 09 (ANI): India's paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) personnel seized heroin worth millions along with fake Indian currency notes near Pakistan border in northern state of Punjab. BSF personnel claimed on Wednesday to have seized four kilogrammes of heroin in the consignment which was confiscated in Amritsar on Tuesday. DIG of BSF, MF Farooqui, said the personnel challenged the intruder after noticing some suspicious movement on the other side of barbed fencing on India-Pakistan border. Farooqui also mentioned that seized heroin was worth rupees 200 million.Jul 9, 2014

New Delhi, July 09 (ANI): BJP and Congress leaders on Wednesday reacted to reports of Rahul Gandhi sleeping in the Lok Sabha during a discussion on inflation. BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain said that Congress was sleeping during the last 10 years of inflation and even today when Congress wanted a discussion over inflation party's vice president Rahul Gandhi was sleeping. Meanwhile Congress leader Rajiv Shukla said that it is low level journalism if such issues come to discussion.Jul 9, 2014

Bengaluru, July 09 (ANI): The lawmakers and workers of Congress party showed their resentment against the new rail budget by staging protest in Bengaluru on Wednesday. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new government on Tuesday presented its first railway budget, promising to seek increased foreign and domestic private investment to fund modernisation of the country's huge but badly stretched network. Party’s youth wing, Indian Youth Congress (IYC), also staged a protest in the Bengaluru city of Karnataka.Jul 9, 2014

Varanasi/ Kanpur/ Hyderabad, July 09 (ANI): People across country, wants respite from spiraling prices, provision of basic amenities as Narendra Modi-led government prepares to lay down its vision for the future in its maiden budget which will be presented on Thursday. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present his maiden budget in the parliament on July 10 - a document that will provide an indication of the course Modi's government wants to chart for the country's economy.Jul 9, 2014